Lacroix and the Calculus

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Silvestre FranAsois Lacroix was not a prominent mathematical researcher, but he was certainly a most influential mathematical book author. His most famous work is the three-volume TraitAc du calcul diffAcrentiel et du calcul intAcgral, which is an encyclopedic appraisal of 18th-century calculus that remained the standard reference on the subject through much of the 19th century. This book provides the first global and detailed study of Lacroix's TraitAc TraitAc du calcul.From the third edition onwards Lacroix pays less attention to approximation
methods (consistently with what had happened in ... particular solutions of first-
order equations [Lacroix 1802a, 371-385] (particular solutions of second-order
equations are also not ... II, 262-274], that is, the essential part of the
corresponding section in the large TraitAc, with material taken from [Lagrange
1774]: the explanation for.

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Lacroix and the Calculus

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João Caramalho Domingues

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Springer Science & Business Media - 2008-06-17

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